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  • Microsoft details macOS vulnerability that allowed protected data access

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    rob53 said:
    aatb said:
    rob53 said:
    And we’re congratulating the largest vendor of malware for what reason? 
    Following the notification process correctly and helping MacOS be more secure?  
    Vulnerability had to do with software Microsoft didn’t like so they tried to work around it. When they discovered how to attack it, one employee had the ethics to tell Apple about it. Microsoft doesn’t do anything that isn’t of value to them. They spent decades not patching their software because they felt there wasn’t an alternative. Now they have a good income stream from Mac users so they’re trying to keep it.

    5 posts??
    They found a vulnerability, informed Apple and gave them a chance to patch it then released the details, letting other researchers learn from it. This is pretty standard protocol. I don’t like Microsoft, either, but they did exactly what they should have here.

    What’s wrong with having 5 posts?
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  • Apple's infamous $19 Polishing Cloth is now back in stock

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    DuhSesame said:
    I’m prepared for Darkvader to show up 😂
    Followed shortly by lkrupp spouting something about people using this to sue apple!


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  • Alexa tells 10-year-old girl to touch live electrical socket with penny

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    crowley said:
    mretondo said:
    It is physically impossible to insert a plug in a socket and touch the life metal parts, not even with a penny. Plug and socket are constructed that way.  Both have to follow strict standards. If both are constructed as imposed by those standards, nothing could happen to the girl. 
    That’s not to say Alexa should have such a challenge.  That’s not acceptable behaviour for a smart speaker. But the little girl was never in danger. Not even when she had done what Alex instructed her to do. 
    You can absolutely do this in the US. Our plugs are a terrible design.
    Yes we can do that in the US, but I prefer the convenience of US plugs over European’s overly complex and large plugs
    ???

    European plugs are basically the same as US plugs, just with cylindrical prongs instead of flat ones.  UK plugs are the larger (slightly)  and more complex (with actual safety features!) ones.


    The newer EU plugs are designed like the UK plug - the body of the prongs is an insulator and the conductor is is confined to the end. 

    There’s somewhat of a debate in the US over the ‘proper’ orientation of a grounded plug. Does the ground pion belong on top, like the UK orientation above, or on the bottom so it looks like eyes and a nose/mouth. One of the arguments for having it on top is to prevent something from falling across the conducting leads.
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  • Apple wants an iPhone to charge other devices through the screen glass

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    auxio said:
    beowulfschmidt said:
    Wireless charging is so environmentally friendly.  And the further away from the charging coils the target is, the more environmentally friendly it becomes.

    /s
    On the flip side, how environmentally friendly are charging cables?  I can't count the number I've gone through over the years.  While one can argue that it takes as much (or more) material to add a wireless charger to a device as it does to make a cable, I'm fairly certain that people recycle their devices far more often than they do cables given that they get money back for it.
    I can count on one hand the number of cables I’ve thrown out, and in case you didn’t notice, wireless charging still uses a cable, it’s just got a big ol’ puck on the end. (And rare-earth magnets if it’s a mag safe model,) so the ‘wireless’ charging also consumes more resources there, too. 

    Last I heard, peak efficiency of inductive charging was about 70%.  For a 4V, 3100 mAh battery that means 5.3wH of wasted power per charge cycle. If you use 70% per day, that means 1.3 kWh per year per phone. Not a lot until you multiply it by 1 million phones. Then you have terawatts of wasted power. One phone at a time. 
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  • HDMI cable purchasing is about to get a whole lot more complicated

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    lkrupp said:
    The Apple Discussion Forums (Apple TV Hardware section) is chocked full of questions and issues about getting Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos working with their Apple TV 4K, AVR gear, sound bars, and TVs. Lots of arguing over HDMI cables (48gbps certified, 16gbps certified, etc.) AVR and TV settings to enable things, misinformation about HDR, HDR10, HDR10+, Dolby Vision. It usually boils down to blaming the Apple TV for all their troubles. I mean, how could Sony, Denon, Samsung, Marantz, Yamaha, TCL possibly be the cause. Third party hardware/firmware is always assumed to be perfect by those with issues.

    The HDMI cable is the root cause of issues most of the time with the the length, the speed, the version being the culprits. And of course Samsung TVs don't support Dolby Vision but hawks Samsung's proprietary HDR10+ format. Talk about a labyrinth.


    My biggest issue has been HDCP. Trying to play copy protected content from an Apple device has turned into a crap shoot. I’ve even had movies stop playing 30 minutes in. 
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